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Meanings of rot (rots) in English

Portuguese
decomposição
Catalan
descomposició
Wikidata

(Biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action.

decomposição
Catalan
poca-soltada
Spanish
disparate

Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

poca-soltada
Portuguese
putrefazer
Catalan
descompondre's
Spanish
pudrirse

Break down.

putrefazer
Catalan
descompondre's

Become physically weaker.

descompondre's
Synonyms
Examples for "waste"
Examples for "waste"
1
In Europe alone we waste 90 million tonnes of food a year.
The Irish Times
2
More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing waste problem.
Radio NZ
3
Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food waste.
The Guardian
4
Earlier this year China decided to stop taking any more foreign waste.
Radio NZ
5
The economic crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and waste.
Reuters
Usage of rots in English
1
The end that grows is heresy; the end that rots is orthodox.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
2
The river has only black depths where one rots in the slime.
Original Short Stories — Volume 06
3
At present the greater part of the fruit rots on the trees.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
4
It rots and it generates methane, which is a climate change gas.
Radio NZ
5
She will probably lie here till she rots in this stagnant sea.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
6
Patriotism rots into Prussianism when you pretend it is the first virtue.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
7
If it is left too long upon the tree, it quickly rots.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
8
I noticed that here even plastic rots, like all the organic matter.
Conquest of the Useless
9
Here we are, and here we stops till we dies and rots.
Mr. Meeson's Will
10
What he rots in this God-forsaken place for I can't make out.
The Valiant Runaways
11
Orthodoxy is that which rots, and heresy is that which grows forever.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
12
It was the kind of magic that destroys, warps, rots, and corrupts.
Blood rites
13
I don't care if every tooth I got rots in my head.
The burglar in the closet
14
When he rots, the surfers'll smell him from a hundred yards out.
The usual suspects
15
When hit by freeze damage, affected fruit then rots when warmer temperatures return.
Reuters
16
The weed just holds her in its grip till she rots.
The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon
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United Kingdom
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